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Mary Beth Breckenridge: Garden grows for good of others

The homemade sign at Ellet Communty Graden on Akers Avenue near E. Market Street on Tuesday in Akron. Lewis and the other gardeners plan on donating part of the harvest to Plant a Row for the Hungry. (Mike Cardew/Akron Beacon Journal)

Kendra Lewis look over the Ellet Communty Graden on Akers Avenue near E. Market Street on Tuesday in Akron. Lewis and the other gardeners plan on donating part of the harvest to Plant a Row for the Hungry. (Mike Cardew/Akron Beacon Journal)

A row of onions are planted next to tomato plants in the Ellet Communty Graden on Akers Avenue near E. Market Street on Tuesday in Akron. Kendra Lewis and the other gardeners plan on donating part of the harvest to Plant a Row for the Hungry. (Mike Cardew/Akron Beacon Journal)

Young broccoli starts to come up in Ellet Communty Graden on Akers Avenue near E. Market Street on Tuesday in Akron. Kendra Lewis and the other gardeners plan on donating part of the harvest to Plant a Row for the Hungry. (Mike Cardew/Akron Beacon Journal)

Kendra Lewis points out the cilantro in the herb gardenbed at Ellet Communty Graden on Akers Avenue near E. Market Street on Tuesday in Akron. Lewis and the other gardeners plan on donating part of the harvest to Plant a Row for the Hungry. (Mike Cardew/Akron Beacon Journal)

Kendra Lewis look over the Ellet Communty Graden on Akers Avenue near E. Market Street on Tuesday in Akron. Lewis and the other gardeners plan on donating part of the harvest to Plant a Row for the Hungry. (Mike Cardew/Akron Beacon Journal)

Mark Speegle, branch manager of Schmidt Mortgage company, (left) talks with Kendra Lewis at Ellet Communty Graden on Akers Avenue near E. Market Street on Tuesday in Akron. Speegle allowed Lewis and the other gardeners to use the land behind his business for the garden. The gardeners plan on donating part of the harvest to Plant a Row for the Hungry. (Mike Cardew/Akron Beacon Journal)